I’m pretty sure I have zero chill. The other night I headed into the garage to do a little laundry. When I turned the light on I found a cute little salamander laying perfectly still in front of the dryer. I did what any normal human would do. I screamed at the top of my lungs. It was then that the salamander lunged at my throat and with it’s sharp claws scratched at my face. Okay, that is not what happened, but according to my scream that is exactly what was happening. Hubby and the baby bassets came running, ready for a fight. They were sure I was being murdered. My youngest was the first to arrive. When he saw what I was screaming about, he turned around and walked back into his room and shut the door. Understandable. My oldest just stood there looking confused at me and asked why the heck I was screaming. Just why. Reasonable question. I wish I knew the answer. Hubby arrived and picked the cute fella up to get him out of the garage. So naturally I screamed again. I have no idea why, it just came out. I really annoy myself sometimes. I picked a nice spot in the backyard and hubby gently released him in the hydrangea garden. I did not scream that time. Yay me!
SERIAL: ‘Like Scarpetta? You’ll love Steel’ (CSI Reilly Steel)
by Casey Hill
Genre: Mystery
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The first novel in the addictive USA Today million-selling CSI police procedural series.
Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew.
But a serial killer soon puts paid to that idea.
A young man and woman are found dead in a hotel room, the evidence initially suggesting a suicide pact.
But as Reilly and the investigative team dig deeper and more bodies are discovered, they soon realize that each crime has an intriguingly unique element in common.
And that a cunning mind is at work, one who seeks to upset society’s norms in the most twisted way…
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Dawn of the Black Sun (The Silver Empire series Book 1)
by Timo Burnham
Genre: Fantasy
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An exile bent on vengeance. A blade forged from shadows.
As the Empire sleeps, a darkness awakens.
Young Ryu yearns to be a legendary martial artist. But when bandits find his sleepy fishing cove, he is forced to face the reality of a violent life. Now Ryu has one path, to master his mind and body. In order to gain incredible abilities, he will have to survive the climb to the peak of the titanic Mount Gharun. The journey will be hard and the climb, lethal. Will he fail like so many before, or rise above and become a legend?
Meanwhile darkness grows in the barrenlands as an exile builds an army meant for a single purpose — to conquer the Silver Empire.
A new dawn is coming. The Dawn of the Black Sun
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Little Boy Lost: A Story of Hope and Redemption, Set Amidst the Backdrop of a Mother’s Suicide
by David Peters
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting | Parenting & Relationships
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Little Boy Lost – the true story of one boy’s heartache and hope while coming of age in small-town Tennessee in the 1970s.
As the youngest of three sons and a bona fide momma’s boy, David Peters thinks that having a mother who spends months at a time in psychiatric hospitals is normal. Then on St. Patrick’s Day 1974, his world shatters when she commits suicide.
At the age of 13, he’s left struggling to make sense of his mother’s death while facing a host of new challenges: the father who has lost his business and checked out of society, the stepmother who despises him and his brothers, and watching his family slide from middle class comfort to living on food stamps.
Ultimately, he finds healing, thanks to the assortment of “surrogate” parents who take him in, his buddies, and baseball and basketball.
Through it all, David discovers that even in life’s darkest moments, if you look hard enough for the light, eventually the sun will rise again.
By sharing his story, David Peters hopes that Little Boy Lost will help readers gain an understanding of how to find hope and healing after family trauma from mental illness and suicide.
A powerful, heartwarming story of resilience in the face of terrible tragedy, Little Boy Lost is perfect for fans of memoirs like The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls or A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes.
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Lost and Found: A Later in Life Romance (A McKenna Family Romance Book 1)
by Lucinda Race
Genre: Romance
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Enjoy this clean, small town, later in life, romance by award winning and bestselling author, Lucinda Race.
Love never ends… A widow who talks to her late husband and her handsome single neighbor who has secretly loved her for years.
In the years after Cari McKenna lost her husband, she threw her energy into raising her family and starting a thriving coffee shop. Now, her grown children have moved out and her daughters are pushing her to brave the perils of internet dating. Even Cari is forced to admit that her life might be a little too placid. Until a tree falls across her roof and exposes her loneliness.
Ray Davis always stops by What’s Perkin’ for his morning muffin, it’s not just the blueberry muffins that pull him in but the beautiful widow, Cari McKenna. The handsome master carpenter is starting to wonder if she’ll ever see him as more than a neighbor and friend.
Working with her to rebuild her damaged house gives him a good excuse to spend more time with her, but she still only seems interested in him as a buddy. Then Ray’s ex-wife rolls into town intent of forcing him to reconnect but really to give her an alibi and that’s when Ray realizes his dreams- or even his life- could be lost.
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MURDER ON A COUNTRY LANE: Gripping cozy English mystery fiction (the Somerset whodunit mysteries Book 1)
by Jon Harris
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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A lovely little spot for murder!
Not much happens in Biddle Rhyne, a quiet, picturesque village in the southwest of England. Especially if you don’t count the meat raffle on a Thursday night and the odd sheep escaping a field.
However, that’s all set to change when Julia Ford, a normal(ish) twenty-something who works in the local pub, stumbles upon a murder victim.
Upsetting, but not the end of the world. Particularly as the victim is Audrey White, the cantankerous owner of a nearby garden centre.
But when the police discover Julia had argued with the woman in the past, and her fingerprints are found on a death threat, she is accused of the crime, and her life is turned upside down.
Released on police bail and encumbered with an unfetching ankle tag, Julia will have to clear her own name.
Yet the murderer is intent that she takes the fall. Will Julia land on her feet?
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